PLANE RISES FROM SNOW

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 815, 8 November 1929, Page 9

PLANE RISES FROM SNOW

BYRD’S BIG MACHINE READY FOR TRIALS YEAR IN FROZEN HANGAR By RUSSELL OWEN Copyrighted, 1928, by the “New York Times” company and the St. Louis “PostDispatch.” All rights for publication reserved throughout the world. Wireless to the “New York Times.” Reed. 9.5 a.m. BAY OF WHALES, Wednesday. Our three-motored Ford airplane emerged from its hole in the snow yesterday. Men pulling the ropes, its wide, thick wing lifted slowly over the snow, until it stood perched on the top like a prehistoric bird of this lost Continent. Now it lies beside the small Fairchild, looming above it, and this floating hunk of ice on- the edge of the wilderness begins to look like an aviation camp. Getting, out the Ford, which is named the Floyd Bennett, after the man who flew with Commander Byrd over the North Pole, and who would have been his pilot in this polar flight if he had not died in an attempt to rescue the Gefman transatlantic flyers, was a two-day job. It was buried in a snow hangar until only its wings showed above the surface, and the puppies played up and down it in the sun, and slept there, basking in the warmth.